Who remembers Archie?  Gopher? Veronica?  Any one? Any one? Bueller? Bueller?

Seriously now, does any remember these programs?  They’re from the good ol days of the early internet before the monster search engines we now have.  They were also from a time when graphic artist were barely getting a glimmer of an idea of what digital art was all about.  We have come so far haven’t we?  In those days I had an amiga, and a 386 machine, and the mac was still black and white.  Lightwave was called turbosilver, and most designers were still using traditional mediums to produce ad work.  Everything was labor intensive.

With the advent of faster processors, and better graphics cards and cheap memory things changed for us designers. We were able to get away from the traditional, and really begin to explore our imaginations in the virtual world.

Then came the internet, and website design. WHOO BOY! Now we could let the world see our work out there all around the world in no time flat, right?  Not really, we had to learn to program in strange languages like html, or have our geeky friend do it for us.

Now with the programs out there like Dreamweaver, Silverlight and the like, we can really let our imaginations go online for the first time with out being tied to the real world.  I can’t wait to see what we can do in the next 15 years.  If the development over the last 15 is any indication this should be fun.